Trade & Supply Chain

Our 2013 Winners discuss the awards and the current state of play in their industries.

A welcome sign (Photo: Aaron Pruzaniec) The Great Recession, along with a changing global economic landscape, has led leaders in the US to reassess the country’s relationships with foreign markets and companies. The rethink is laudable—but means nothing if not ...

Alibaba's HQ in Hangzhou: Stealing a march on Wal-Mart (photo: Thomas Lombard) At his first public engagement as Alibaba Group’s new CEO, Jonathan Lu didn’t mince words. He says he expects China’s largest e-commerce company to nearly triple the volume ...

Putin: Gaga for Lada (photo: premier.gov.ru) Here’s an incredibly important piece of advice for Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin: Stop slapping exorbitant import duties on automobiles. The tariffs are not only choking off the supply of nameplates from the ...

MILESTONES By Gordon Platt The presidents of Colombia, Peru and Chile sat down to lunch with the economy minister of Mexico at a “CEO summit” in New York in late September. The four chatted amiably about the Pacific Alliance, their ...

MILESTONES By Luca Ventura With a fifth of the world’s population but only 9% of its land, China in recent years has aggressively upped its agricultural investments abroad, amassing over 2 million hectares of emerging markets farmland in Africa, Southeast ...

SPECIAL REPORT   By Erik Heinrich   Free-trade superblocs are being negotiated in North America, Europe and Asia. They will forever alter the flow of commerce and finance—and leave winners and losers in their wake.   The world is poised ...

"It's almost as if the trade finance industry hasn't read the newspapers," says Dan Roberts. Roberts, global head of trade finance at Barclays, is talking about what some in the industry describe as an unsustainable situation in trade finance. Prices ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. A cliché, to be sure, but one that rings true right now for corporate treasury & cash management. Companies continue to hold on to cash, as is abundantly clear in ...

IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT   By Hilary Johnson   Companies taking a best-practice approach to AP and AR management are seeing big cost savings and much-improved cycle times. But revamping processes is no mean feat.   Like other former back-office ...

REGIONAL REPORT: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE — A MIXED BAG   By Justin Keay   Central and Eastern European countries are quite diverse in their performance of late. However, investors continue to lump them together when it comes to investments. ...

Global Finance ’s annual list of Who’s Who in Treasury & Cash Management   Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Murali Subramanian Executive president and head of transaction banking   ADCB’s transaction banking division, which has won numerous industry accolades for cash ...

REGIONAL SUPERSECTION — SHALE OIL BOOM RATTLES GCC ECONOMIES   By Gordon Platt   As US shale oil and gas production continues to grow, it could have an impact on GCC economies over both the short and long term.   ...

MILESTONES   By Gordon Platt   At a time when economic activity in Russia has lost its momentum, the World Bank is elevating the country to high-income status.   According to the World Bank’s latest annual classification of the world’s ...

AT HAVEN’S END? Multinational corporations could have a much more difficult time shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions—and deductions to high-tax ones—under new OECD rules. When Apple CEO Tim Cook testified in defense of the computer giant’s tax practices on Capitol ...

CFO INTERVIEW — A GLOBAL VIEW   By Denise Bedell   Nick Fanandakis, EVP and CFO of global agriculture, industrial bioscience and advanced materials company DuPont, sat down with Global Finance to discuss the firm’s growth strategy, resource allocation and ...

Mongolia, which has been growing at double-digit rates since the short recession that followed the global financial crisis, is struggling to find the right path in making use of abundant resources to improve the lives of its citizens, while providing a stable and fair business environment for investors.

Asia is often portrayed as a land of milk and honey, where liquidity and capital flow freely, and high levels of economic growth continue to attract foreign investors. But not all countries in Asia it seems are reaping the benefits ...

THE NEW NORMAL By Hilary Johnson More companies than ever are launching supply-chain finance programs to reduce costs, ensure the stability of their supply chains and improve working capital efficiency. And growing competition among program vendors is making it easier ...

GOING GLOBAL AND MOBILE By Karen Kroll   Companies are increasingly using e-payments and looking at mobile channels. But moving money electronically cross-border can still be an issue.   The ways in which organizations are paying their suppliers and business ...